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• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 7 hours, 41 minutes

  

  https://www.acas.org.uk/coronavirus

  There's no legal ('statutory') right to pay if someone is not sick but
  cannot work because they've:

  been told by a medical expert to self-isolate

  had to go into quarantine

  But it's good practice for their employer to treat it as
  sick leave and follow their usual sick pay policy or agree for the
  time to be taken as holiday. Otherwise there's a risk the employee
  will come to work because they want to get paid. They could then
  spread the virus, if they have it.

• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 4 hours

  

  Cyclist settles case for £30,000 after hitting pedestrian who was looking at phone - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/feb­/24/cyclist-settles-for-30000-pounds-aft­er-hitting-pedestrian-who-was-looking-at­-phone

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 7 hours

  

  There is some suggestion you can get it twice which implies immunity isn't going to happen.

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  Even if they have symptoms it seems for the majority they are relatively mild ones. Isolate and monitor seems reasonable, they don't need immediate admission to an intensive care ward.

• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 1 day

  

  The trouble is in the UK we have no official residence. Many parts of the world require you to register where you live (after something like 3 months) with the authorities and keep them updated when you move. That kind of thing has always been resisted for lots of good reasons but it means it is much harder to know who is living here, how long for etc. It's inevitable that when you try and infer residence from a collection of other databases gathered for other reasons it's going to be a mess.

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  London coronavirus patient turned up at hospital in Uber taxi - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/f­eb/13/london-coronavirus-patient-turned-­up-hospital-uber-taxi

  The black taxi drivers were right all along!

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Chiquito £1 Taco tuesday and thursday?

  My PITA children refuse to eat proper tacos. I'm gradually adjusting the recipe of the chilli I make but we still have some distance to go.

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  I’m hoping this was said in jest. If not you might want to reconsider. Just buy what you need.

  A little bit but I'm also pissed off with my local branch of Sainsbury's which on Sunday had run out of tinned tomatoes (all brands), tinned sweetcorn (they did have some massive cans of Green Giant but not all the other usual ones) and taco shells so my cupboards are far too empty.

  In general I think it is good planning to have several weeks of long life food in the house (the stuff you usually eat anyway that you can rotate through) along with 6 months expenditure available in cash accounts etc. I agree this is a problem for the more vulnerable people.

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Blow the bridges now!

  When I go to the supermarket at the weekend I might buy a bit more dry/tinned/frozen stuff than usual and make sure my cupboards are nice and full in case the family has to self isolate.

• Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 6 days

  

  My employer has half a dozen people at a trade show this week along with 20,000 other attendees from all over the world.